Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The UN refugee agency has welcomed a contribution of over 21 million Sudanese pounds (about 238,000 pounds sterling) by the British government to help separated refugee children in Sudan.Full text...

Cairo, Egypt (PANA) - Nearly 600 refugees, half of them Syrians, were moved this week by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) from Egypt to Germany as part of the country’s Humanitarian Admissions Programme (HAP), IOM said on Friday, noting this was the last group of refugees who were stranded in Egypt.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Health and shelter for Burundian refugees in Tanzania are poised to get worse in already overstretched camps, if there is an increased influx of refugees across the border, international aid agencies warned on Monday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Following the killing and revenge attack on a camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Central African Republic (CAR) town of Batangafo, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has expressed concern about the spreading insecurity in the country and condemned the violent attack on the camp.
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New York, US (PANA) - Following heavy which resulted in devastating floods rains in southwestern Algeria last week, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has airlifted emergency aid to 11,000 families living in five camps in the region.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The central emergency response fund (CERF) has allocated US$ 15.1 million to Sudan to fill critical funding gaps in the country’s humanitarian response and provide urgent life-saving assistance to internally-displaced people and vulnerable host communities in north Darfur, the UN said in Khartoum on Tuesday.
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Yaoundé, Cameroon (PANA) – The the European Union delegation and the German embassy in Cameroon on Tuesday in Bertoua, in the Eastern region, launched a 7.5 million-euro support programme to host populations and the refugees from Central African Republic.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday and Wednesday to discuss the ongoing refugee and migration crisis, in what the UN cautioned may be the last chance to create a coherent response to end the suffering and exploitation of refugees and migrants.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The German government has donated EUR 1.4 million to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Sudan for its 2015 programme, a press release by the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday.
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New York US (PANA) - Residents at the Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya will soon be able to buy charcoal produced in an environmentally-friendly way by local farmers as part of an innovative new alliance between the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and a leader in global payments and a technology company, MasterCard, to support small farmers and poor families.Full text...

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) - Despite the inauguration of Pierre Nkurunziza for his third term as President of Burundi last month, tension still grips the country's political landscape as more of its citizens flee to Tanzania, official sources here confirmed Wednesday.
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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - The United States has given US$6 million additional life-saving humanitarian assistance for those fleeing the conflict in Yemen and seeking refuge in Djibouti and Somalia.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - Japan has contributed US$ 7.5 million towards UNHCR’s programme in Sudan in 2015, of which over US$ 1.4 million will be earmarked for interventions in refugee camps in eastern Sudan, the UN body revealed in a press release here Thursday, following a field visit by the Japanese ambassador in Sudan, Mr. Hideki Ito, to a refugee camp in eastern Sudan.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) has expressed concern about the escalating violence in and around Nigeria and its impact on the situation of Nigerian refugees in surrounding host countries, including a shrinking humanitarian space in which they can seek asylum.
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Nouakchott, Mauritania (PANA) – The European Union (EU) has given the World Food Programme (WFP) 400,000 euros (about US$ 438,800) with which the European Commission on Civil Protection (ECHO) will provide humanitarian aid, including food assistance, to 50,000 Malian refugees accommodated in the Mbera camp in eastern Mauritania, the EU delegation in Nouakchott said on Tuesday.Full text...

Kinshasa, DR Congo (PANA) - The UN Refugee Agency on Wednesday launched an airlift operation to repatriate more than 600 refugees back home to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) six years after they fled to Central African Republic (CAR) to escape attacks by the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA).Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - Weeks after elections in Nigeria, violence and attacks continue to drive population movements within and outside the country, the UN High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) warned on Tuesday, reporting a "steady flow" of Nigerian refugees now seeking safety some 100 km inside the Cameroon border.
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Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - The large majority of the 137,000 people who crossed the Mediterranean Sea into Europe during the first six months of 2015 were fleeing from war, conflict or persecution, making the Mediterranean crisis primarily a refugee crisis, a UNHCR report, released Wednesday has said.
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) - The Office of the Commissioner for Refugees in the Zambian Ministry of Home Affairs, working with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), on Tuesday relocated 150 newly arrived Burundi Refugees from the capital, Lusaka, to the Meheba Refugee Settlement in Solwezi, north-western Zambia.
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New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has welcomed a decision by European Union (EU) leaders to assist up to 60,000 refugees in need of international protection, but warns that much more will have to be done to address the root causes of a steadily increasing global refugee crisis.
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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The United Nations agency for refugees (UNHCR) has expressed "extreme concern" about the influx of South Sudanese refugees into Sudan, especially in the White Nile State.
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Lusaka, Zambia (PANA) – Over 300 Burundians forced to flee their homes following the recent political instability in their country are seeking asylum in Zambia, the Ministry of Home Affairs has disclosed.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - More than 55,000 refugees have arrived in the Greek islands so far this year, with hundreds arriving every day in inflatable dinghies and wooden boats, putting a tremendous strain on the communities that receive them and worsening conditions for the new arrivals, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) reported on Monday that some 14,000 South Sudanese, mainly women and children, have fled into Sudan over the weekend, describing the situation as "an emergency within an emergency".
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New York, US (PANA) - UN relief agencies on Thursday agreed to develop a regional response plan to deal with the exodus of refugees fleeing Burundi to neighbouring countries, as the situation in the crisis-gripped East African nation continues to deteriorate weeks after election-related political tensions and violence erupted.Full text...

New York, US (PANA) - The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in collaboration with the governments of Kenya and Somalia will organize an International Conference of Solidarity to raise funds for increasing areas inside Somalia for receiving returnees, the UN refugee agency said Thursday.Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Various camps hosting Burundian refugees in southern and eastern Rwanda are fast running out of water, a senior official from the Rwandan Ministry of Refugees and Disaster Management warned on Tuesday in Kigali.Full text...

Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - About 200 Burundian crossed into southwestern Rwanda late on Wednesday, as Burundians they continue to flee the violence in the country related to the forthcoming elections.
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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe, will on Wednesday lead his counterparts from member countries of the East African Community (EAC) on a fact-finding mission to Burundi in the wake of pre-election violence in the country, his ministry said here Monday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - New waves of civilians fleeing Burundi to Rwanda over recent weeks for fear of possible violence related to the forthcoming elections, have reached 20,500, the Rwandan Ministry of Refugees and Disaster Management said on Tuesday.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A first batch of 403 Burundian refugees who arrived in Rwanda in fear of possible violence related to the forthcoming elections, have been transferred to another camp located far from their common border, according to an official statement issued to PANA on Wednesday in Kigali.Full text...

Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya has embarked on plans to fast-track the closure of the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, which authorities here say has provided an operating base for Somali militants.
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Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A dozen buses carrying 900 Burundians who have fled their country in fear of possible violence related to the forthcoming elections have arrived in southeastern Rwanda's Busegera district, the state-run Radio Rwanda reported Thursday.Full text...